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must architecture always be so pretentious? asks Renzo Piano
Q: What can be done to improve the suburbs of Paris? A: People are starting to understand that the real challenge is to turn peripheries into cities
Renzo Piano, by reputation among the world's greatest architects, tells Emma Brockes why cities have been betrayed
The Guardian, Monday November 21, 2005
Renzo Piano, by reputation among the world's greatest architects, tells Emma Brockes why cities have been betrayed
The Guardian, Monday November 21, 2005
continue reading: The Guardian -http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1647127,00.html(....)He can theorise about space with the best of them, but really, he asks, must architecture always be so pretentious? To those who draw analogies between it and sculpture he spits "Bullshit! Bullshit!" and clings to the bench as if earthing himself.
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He says ghettoes are "against the idea of a city. Cities are a place of tolerance, by definition, where difference must merge. It's tragically predictable, what happened, and it will probably happen again if something isn't done. It is also because of the government; these people don't understand the important of tolerance." He is not naive enough to believe that his field of endeavour can fix this. But does he believe that architecture can help build that tolerance? "Architecture in some way has the duty to suggest behaviour. In some way. Places are the portrait of communities, and if the place is impossible, the community becomes impossible."
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